Diocese of Numida
Numida was an ancient Roman town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was located in modern northern Algeria.
.svg.png.webp)
Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)
The town was also the seat of an ancient Christian diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, of which very little is known.[1] That Diocese survives today as a titular bishopric.
The location of the classical antiquity has been lost since the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb,[2] and all that remains is the titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church that was once centered in that town.[3][4]
Bishopric
Today Numida survives as a titular bishopric[5][6] and the current archbishop, personal title, is Giovanni Battista.
Known bishops of the diocese include
- At the 411 Carthage conference between the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman North Africa, the town was represented by the Donatist bishop Gennaro, without a Catholic opponent.
- Vittore participated in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King Huneric the Vandal, after which Vittore was exiled.
- Morandini, an apostolic nuncio.
- Ildefonso Naselli fl. 20 September 1728
- Severino Maria Castelli fl. 27. März 1765
- Etienne Blanquet de Rouville of Reims 1828–1838
- Paul Bui Chu Tao of Phát Diem 1959–1960
- Cornélio Veerman Cametá 1961–1970
- Edward Louis Heston 1972–1973
- Mario Pio Gaspari 1973–1983
- Giovanni Battista Morandini 1983–current
References
- Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
- Numida at gcatholic.org
- "Titulare N". www.apostolische-nachfolge.de. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
- Cheney, David M. "Numida (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 247
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.